Breaking walls and exploring borders in the context of postsocialism
Today we are very excited at Allegra – we continue our experimentation with serving you, dear readers, exotic and delicious slow food for thought….
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This thematic thread is dedicated to Postsocialism. Curated by Daria Gritsenko.
Aftertaste: memories of postsocialism
Allegra’s thematic thread on #postsocialism is coming to its end. We hope that the eight delicious specialties Allegra served you over the past two…
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Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World
Patterns of food provision and consumption have become objects of increasing concern among both scholars and activists. In the last few decades, the ways…
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Searching for (post-)Soviet taste
This project was inspired by a curiosity in whether people from the former Soviet states, more than two decades after the collapse of the…
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Border Work by Madeleine Reeves
In contemporary political anthropology, ‘the state’ is a curious as if object (Navaro-Yashin 2002). It has come to dominate the sub-discipline since the 1990s….
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REDUX: Rethinking Refugees: Afghan Traders and Exiles in the Former Soviet Union
This piece explores the activities of Afghan merchants in the former Soviet Union especially Tajikistan in Central Asia and Russia and Ukraine. It brings…
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SommerWende: Art/Science of postsocialism
Summer of course is a nice time to take vacation and go on a trip, visit new places, admire historical sights, explore local cuisine,…
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